Focus Stacked Gerbera Daisy Petals…

Not really sure what to talk about here that I haven’t already mentioned, but I wanted to put up another focus stacked image (cleaned up in GIMP). I thought it might be cool to show one of the photos that created the final focus stacked image, the “if I were to only use one photo” photo… or perhaps it can be labeled as the ‘before’…

I thought it might be kind of fun to show the set up as well. Note the blue cleaning rag draped over my backpack… that’s where the blue background came from – neat, huh? 😀 Also I took two pieces of 5×7 semi-gloss printer paper and rubber banded them around the ring flash to bounce more light onto my subject. One other ‘secret’ I did was spritz my cut flowers with a water bottle to get little beads of water drops.